Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I

Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I (758-11 April 828) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 806 to 815, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Tarasios and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Theodotos.

Biography
Nikephoros was elected as the Patriarch of Constantinople in 806, and he was a strictly Orthodox Christian; his father Secretary Theodore had been whipped and banished by Constantine V of Byzantium for being an iconodule. In 815 he was deposed due to religious disputes and retired to a cloister.